In Miami last night, we saw a revamped Mitt Romney who has emerged fresh from weeks of intense debate preparations, including 5 mock debates in just 48 hours. He’s quick, polished, and ready with a punchy attack against the President. But after weeks of promises from his campaign that the details were soon to arrive, what he wasn’t prepared to do was offer Americans any specifics about his plans. It was no surprise that he disagrees with the President’s plans to fix the broken immigration system, but he continues to offer no alternative.

And the last one:

Mitt Romney made up for a lackluster campaign by performing well in debates – he bragged that Time Magazine said he won 16 out of 20 primary debates, his campaign says he “dominated” them, and he says that he can “debate darn well and take it to the President.” With weeks of debate prep, including an entire week during the Democratic Convention, he’s obviously banking on flawless performances in October to achieve the turnaround his campaign has projected. But Americans won’t score this contest on style points alone. They want to know who has the better plan to create good-paying, sustainable jobs for the middle class in the future. Mitt Romney has yet to explain how returning to the same policies that resulted in the economic crisis will do anything but further erode the economic security of middle class families. And on issue after he has yet to provide details beyond the platitudes and attacks on exactly what he would do to move this country forward.

The rest of the memo rips up Romney on a variety of policy issues, which really only makes the barely-straight-faced spin in these two passages especially noticeable. It's all part of the process whereby both campaigns try to raise the bar for the other candidate's debate performance, which The Daily Show memorably parodied back in 2004.